Entertainment: January 2010

Could this be *quiver* the textbook used by Focus on Family for their understanding of gay life? Bring your boots, baby! Wait until you see the description from the back of the book. It's after the jump....Read More

I'll admit it- I google search myself occasionally. You never know what will pop up, which is part of the adventure of tossing your name into cyber space. Having a rather unique name like mine, there's usually not much filler...Read More

I first heard about Foxxjazzell on Monica Roberts's blog and, since I'm always looking to learn about LGBTQ musicians, I looked her up on YouTube and "Split Enz" was the first result that came up. It has an awesome electro-hip-hop...Read More

I admit, I don't think much of Valentine's Day. Maybe it's because of all the cheap perforated valentines you can pick up at any drug store, and the not so delicious bone-meal conversation hearts that float around my office every...Read More

I love this comic. I'd like to put more words behind that statement, but that sentence is what it really boils down to. Sure, it's not the most artistically astounding webcomic I've featured on this column, and it's not as...Read More

Maybe teh gayz will have words for Joy Behar over this segment of The View. I don't really think she was saying anything offensive - it's not a shame to not practice monogamy, there's nothing morally wrong with relationships, gay...Read More

Belgian ad campaign for Maxum candy bars. The French comment "It'll make a man out of you" pretty much insults everyone -- which is a kind of equality, I guess, but not exactly what we're aiming for.......Read More

Oh, say it isn't true, Johnny. Say it isn't so. Is there really a John Edwards/Rielle Hunter sex tape? According to sources... Emphasis mine Sources have told us that, in the throes of their affair, John Edwards and Rielle Hunter...Read More

When it was announced that Indianapolis would be hosting the 2012 Super Bowl, my post about it quickly became the most popular Bilerico-Indiana entry. For obviously intellectual reasons, of course, it still ranks in the top ten each and every...Read More

Bil forwarded me a Gawker post with this message: Feel like taking on Gawker for always saying Lady Gaga has a penis? I've never been sure if all that "Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite/transgender woman/intersex" is "true" or where it...Read More

OMG. This is absolutely hysterical and you'll gasp at the sheer inane fundie logic and flair for the, well, dramatic. Christwire.org writer Stephenson Billings takes a look at "What Every Parent Should Know About The TV Show Glee" and comes...Read More

While the IAAF has been backing and filling on the Caster Semenya case, many of us have been waiting for the IOC shoe to drop. This week the shoe dropped. In Miami Beach, a panel of so-called "experts" convened by...Read More

From Rosie O'Donnell comes "A Family Is a Family Is a Family," a great-looking new documentary premiering Sunday, January 31, at 7 p.m. ET on HBO. Much of the film features children talking about their families, including ones with same-sex...Read More

Gretchen Phillips is a lesbian singer/songwriter also known as the front woman in Meat Joy, Girls in the Nose, and Two Nice Girls. She's a rock singer whose songs focus on lesbianism and gender. She made underground lesbian rock in...Read More

67 countries (marked in green) have signed on to the United Nation's declaration on LGBT civil rights. 57 countries (marked in red) have signed a resolution opposing it. The proposed declaration includes a condemnation of violence, harassment, discrimination, exclusion, stigmatization,...Read More

Whenever I want to know what's up with the still-festering Caster Semenya case, I go to a South African website called "The Science of Sport." TSOS gets through the media murk to what the issues really are. It's run by...Read More

Jon Stewart and the good folks at the Daily Show have been on a real tear against equality opponents lately. Here are a couple of great clips from this week's shows. Dreaded Bliss Wyatt Cenac talks to a ragtag group...Read More

Jon Stewart and the good folks at the Daily Show have been on a real tear against equality opponents lately. Here are a couple of great clips from this week's shows. Dreaded Bliss Wyatt Cenac talks to a ragtag group...Read More

The other day Jerame and I were talking about Neil Patrick Harris' three part web video, "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog," and how many people mentioned it when voting for him as AfterElton.com's Gay Man of the Decade. While we'd...Read More

I first heard about Canadian pop singer Matthew David when he got a little earned media on Xtra for being "from Abbotsford. I am gay. I am Christian. I'm not hiding anything." Go him. Here's a live performance of "Masquerade."...Read More

What a load of anti-LGBT crap. This gem of a comic strip got the full print treatment in the Notre Dame Student Paper, The Observer: Character 1: "What's the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?" Character 2:...Read More

Comment Questions of the day: 1. Have you ever been on stage and the set fell or been in the audience when such disaster happened? 2. Are you a Mariah Carey fan? What do you make of her public...Read More

It seems like all too often when you tune your radio or television to mainstream news and talk shows these days, there's good reason to be at minimum pretty annoyed, and sometimes even genuinely pissed off and angry if you're...Read More

Last night on the Rachel Maddow Show, Ted Olson and David Boies came on to talk about the Prop 8 trial. This is just the latest stop in what has been a full-on media blitz from the pro-equality side. It's...Read More

Comment Questions of the Day: 1. What did you think of New Moon? 2. What parts from the book should have been added? 3. Did you like New Moon better than Twilight? 4. What movie should I review next?...Read More

I was surfing to avoid working, and looking up random videos. I came across a beautiful young trans woman talking about the kind of hate speech that has been employed against her. Some people said they wanted to kill her....Read More

This just in from Gary McCullough, the Director of Christian Newswire, a religious right press release outlet. McCullough claims that Americans will tune out American Idol once Ellen joins the show "because young girls and their traditional families are uncomfortable...Read More

Hijra in Karachi, which seemed appropriate after the discussions we got into this past week on TBP. The photographer says he asked permission and paid money to take this picture, making them professional models....Read More

Via Feministing, here's the first gay male sex scene on daytime TV, from One Life to Live. It's really cheesy with a cut to the candles just when it's getting fun, but, hey, that's the medium. Plus they get fireworks...Read More

Let me tell you about the best duck of my life. That wasn't a typo, I really am going to talk about food today. I rarely mention my boyfriend, Mikey, on here (mostly because I feel like it would deter...Read More

In 2002, Harisu became the second person in Korea to legally change their sex in the official family registry. She said: "I couldn't get a passport, visa or even my own bank accounts because I was legally a man." Her...Read More

I had a GREAT TIME!!!! Michael Cera loved me and Chuck Bass was there too! YAY! Comment Questions of the Day: 1. Would you want to create a supplementary persona like François Dillinger in the movie (think Sasha Fierce)...Read More

Neil Patrick Harris has won AfterElton.com's Gay Man of the Decade contest. The actor took 61% of the vote in the online poll that went viral once he and actor John Barrowman started a Twitter battle over the title. Various...Read More

Soccer player Jesus Datalo posed in his underwear for a photo spread in Italian gay publication Romeo Mag and the leadership of his club is hopping mad. Datalo plays for Napoli. The Argentinian player is hardly the first soccer star...Read More

After Robert Downey Jr made a comment on David Letterman's show that the famous detective Sherlock Holmes might be shtupping his sidekick, Dr. Watson, the future of the movie franchise might be in jeopardy. Downey is the star of the...Read More

This beautiful rendition of "Do You Remember" by Gavin Creel is one of the best songs I've found on YouTube lately. It was written for an abandoned Peter Pan musical and I'd never heard it before. I'm not usually into...Read More

Neil Patrick Harris has called his fans and followers to battle! My favorite stalkee out gay celeb is in a Twitter battle royale for the title of AfterElton.com's Man of the Decade. Neil sent a tweet to his followers asking...Read More

I saw this blind item on Gawker and can't figure out who they're referencing. I know Projectors will probably ferret out the answer within minutes, but I need some help on this one. Who are they talking about? "This actress...Read More